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First cemetery was West Street, now at the corner of Brooke Street and Queen Street, consecrated September 14, 1881. In 1895 the Durban Corporation granted the congregation an additional piece of land, enabling them to bury a number of Jewish dead from the Glencoe rail disaster ( 1896- ten buried). This cemetery closed in 1905, has 52 adults and 35 children. This database file was compiled by, and donated to JOWBR by Stan Hart of Durban, South Africa.